My 1995 Small Farm

   Chapter 134

   Looking at her little sister's appearance, Wang Susu couldn't hold back her joy: "What's wrong? Is your brother-in-law right? When I was as old as you, I looked forward to going to school every day."

  It was true that the children of that time were like this.

  Except for a few who cherish the opportunity to go to school, the rest is to be able to do less farm work and be lazy.

   Even so, during the busy farming season, my parents would call me home to work while I was in class.

  Wang Zhenzhen saw that her sister didn't speak for her, so she pouted and said fumblingly: "But...but I'm not ready."

  Chen Ling filled a basin of water beside the well, and said with a smile: "This is not going to the battlefield, so what else do you need to prepare? Come and wash your hands."

   "You and your sister should wash first."

  The little girl pulled over a small ponytail, held her cheeks, and said with a sullen face: "I'm afraid of life when I go to school in the county town."

   "What's there to be afraid of? I asked. There are only a dozen or so people in your class. Play with them more, and you'll get to know them soon."

   "Besides, I still pick you up every day, and I don't live on campus."

  Chen Ling comforted, and Wang Susu also persuaded softly.

  My sister-in-law is still young and it is normal to be nervous when she goes to school in an unfamiliar place.

   It's just a little baby, it's just like this at the beginning, and it's very quick to adapt.

   Don't worry too much.

  …

   Nothing to do these two days.

  Chen Ling went to the county town and bought the third grade textbooks that my sister-in-law was going to use, but it was only after nine o'clock.

   The little girl was young and her mood recovered quickly. Now she ran out to play again and was not at home.

  Chen Ling put the things in the house, turned around and went back to the yard to find a long bamboo pole. He walked to the jujube tree and knocked down all the remaining jujubes.

   I had already hit it once when I was building the house a few days ago, but it was not clean, and Chen Ling saw that there were signs of a second crop of jujube growing on the tree, so he held up the bamboo pole and knocked again.

  Jujube trees are different from other trees in that they usually bear fruit twice a year.

   But letting it grow like this is not very good, and it will affect the results in the coming year. As the saying goes: "There are three sticks of jujubes, but there are no three sticks of jujubes." The jujube trees have to be beaten frequently so that they can bear more fruits every year.

   beat around the jujube tree.

Next, I picked the pears on the pear tree. This year, there are a lot of jujubes and pears. The jujubes add up to 50 pounds, which is the same when the normal old jujube trees bear many fruits. Now, the smaller jujube tree is about 30 catties of jujubes.

   The pear tree was picked and there was a full basket.

  I didn't care about them at ordinary times, which surprised Wang Susu for a while.

   She remembered that the previous two years were far from reaching such a harvest.

   Dates and pears packed.

  Chen Ling went to the cross lane to **** a few shovels of loess, mixed the broken reed poles into mud, and built a few pigeon nests with bricks and stones next to the eastern courtyard wall.

   Pigeons are different from chickens and ducks.

   Regardless of whether wild pigeons or domestic pigeons, they are all monogamous pairs. Once they form a mate, they will live together in an intimate life, build nests and incubate eggs, and run their own small homes.

   Unlike chickens and ducks, one or two males are kept, and the rest are all females, which can lay eggs.

   So after the pigeons are trained, it is not suitable to close them together.

   Besides, it is autumn now, and it gets colder at night in the mountains.

   Even without these pigeons, Chen Ling would have to repair the nests for the quails.

  When the weather is cold, the chickens at home will not fly to the tree to sleep, but will return to the nest. If the quail is still occupying the chicken coop, it is easy to fight.

   This is definitely not possible.

  It took a while to repair the pigeon nest and the quail nest, and Chen Ling continued to sit on the threshold with Wang Susu and weave straw mats.

   At the same time, he discussed with Wang Susu, how many jujubes should be kept this year, and if there are more leftovers, they will be sold.

   "Leave ten pounds of dates and pears, and I'll sell the rest with you when I send them to school tomorrow."

  The two were weaving straw mats and talking. After a while, Wang Zhenzhen led Liu Ni'er and a group of little dolls into the yard. After going to the kitchen to drink some water, they all gathered around and helped the two of them weave.

   Not to mention, the dolls are not slow regardless of their young age, especially Liu Nier, who is a little older. It looks like she has learned at home, and she looks like a decent knitting, and works very hard.

  At noon, Chen Ling thought that they were going to school tomorrow, and planned to keep them here for dinner. He was really busy these days, so he just had time to pick up things for the family and prepare meals.

   As a result, before he could open his mouth, he finished knitting half of the straw mats one by one, and then they all ran away in the blink of an eye.

   After making lunch, Wang Susu and sister-in-law were kept at home for dinner, and Chen Ling went out with a bowl.

   It's been a long time since he rushes to the dinner, so he is here to rush to the dinner.

   In these years, most of the people in the village like to eat together.

   Mainly because there are no entertainment activities in the village, and there is no TV to watch.

  When it was time to eat, I would hold a bowl with my neighbors, people who lived nearby, and chatted while eating, talking about astronomy, geography, and national events;

   Some people can eat a bowl of rice for an hour, and they can eat in front of people and behind them.

   Catching a meal is also very interesting.

   Today, Chen Ling came out to catch the meal because the loudspeaker of the brigade just called for the shotgun to arrive. The village must be lively, so I just went to see what was going on.

   They gather here for dinner and like to run to Cui Lazi's house.

   Mainly, Cui Laizi's family has chess and poker mahjong. When he is not busy with farm work, he can set up a battle after eating and play cards and chess to kill time.

   At this moment, the front of Cui Laizi's house is already quite lively.

Many little dolls were joking around the big tree, and the adults were holding sea bowls and bowls, squatting in the corner, or sitting on chairs. .

The gap between the rich and the poor in the countryside is not big, and the lunch of each family is similar. It is either dried noodles or soup with lumps, or boiled porridge with some dried sweet potatoes. It is more convenient to take two steamed buns and insert a piece of pickled vegetables. came out.

Chen Ling's family has been eating lightly for the past two days. At noon, it's just lump soup and vegetarian steamed buns. After walking over, they greeted people, and they squatted with Chen Yuqiang and Chen Ze, who were young, drinking soup and listening to others. people talking.

   "No wonder they say that leap seven is not leap eight, leap eight kills with a knife, look at this year, there is a flood, and there is a wolf disaster. It's a proper disaster year.

  Someone sighed for a while, which was echoed.

"It's useless to say that it's all ordinary people who are digging food in the ground. What can they do? I heard from the party secretary that our county organized a wolf-fighting team a few days ago, riding a motorcycle and carrying a gun around the village. I just don't want to send shotguns down, because I'm afraid that this family will have grudges and that family will have grievances and cause trouble. As a result, I ran into a pack of wolves in Taoshugou the night before and frightened those young people to half death, not to mention fighting wolves. I almost explained it, the people in the county are useless, and it is because of this that they gave the shotgun to the slack."

   "The second uncle, how many shotguns do you think our seven teams can get?"

"This... At least five or six shots, Li Xian and Dazhi must have a share, so two shots are out, and the rest of us can't divide three or four guns? If you are born with hands, don't If you're afraid, you can practice hard."

   "Speaking of this, our own patrol team in the village will soon turn to our seventh team to watch the night. When the time comes, there will be a few more people. You have to feel the gun and shoot two rounds of bullets."

  “…”

   These words really made the young people excited, you said every word, it was so lively.

  Chen Ling was eating and listening to the conversation, and probably understood the recent situation.

   In fact, the control of hunting guns is not too strict. The policy will have to wait until next year, that is, 1996.

   On their side, it was because the riots in the past few years were too violent, and people were dying, so they had to send people to various villages and towns to collect them. As a result, many young people in the village did not shoot.

   But this is in the mountains after all, and there are many wild things. In special circumstances, they will still be distributed.

   However, on weekdays, the villagers will definitely not let the villagers own it.

   "Uncle Fugui, I told my second uncle that on August 20, it will be our seven teams' turn to watch the night. When the time comes, I will go with Shuiwazi, and you will go too."

  Chen Yuqiang approached him and said something.

   His second uncle is Chen Guoping's brother, Chen Guoxing, an electrician in the village. Now Chen Yuqiang is also working with this second uncle, and will take Chen Guoxing's class in the future.

"Okay."

  Chen Lingfan was ready, put down the bowl and chopsticks and asked, "The wolf on the mountain has been calling in the middle of the night these days. Have the other teams ever met the wolf coming down the mountain?"

"The wolf goes down the mountain? No. But Xuecheng told Uncle Juxiang that he heard the movement, that is, Uncle Juxiang fell asleep in the middle of the night, and when he woke up, he only heard the crunching sound in the corn field. I don't know if the wolf was there. To eat, the dogs in the village are not barking anyway."

  Chen Yuqiang thought for a while, then shook his head and replied.

When he was talking, Chen Ze also went home and put away the tableware, holding a doll in open crotch pants in his arms, he walked over and pushed it in front of Chen Ling: "Xiao Mao, hurry up and call my uncle, this uncle is carrying candy all day long. , I'll give you candy when you call."

   This is the son of his sister Chen Fang's family. He will stay for two days when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes.

   Hearing what Chen Ze said, he called Chen Ling uncle, looked at him eagerly, and waited for the candy.

   "Oh, uncle really didn't put sugar on his body today."

  Chen Ling patted his pocket, but he didn't put any candy in it, but only found a cigarette case: "Or, Xiao Mao will have a cigarette first, uncle, this is a good cigarette."

  Chen Ze stared at this: "You are rich and noble, and you have trouble with dolls."

   made Xiao Mao giggle and actually reached for it.

  Chen Ling picked up the baby and said, "Haha, uncle is teasing you, you can't take it. Let's go, uncle will buy you candy."

  The Lame Society was right in front of him, and he didn’t go home either. He spent fifty cents to buy a few pieces of each kind of candy, filling Xiaomao’s pockets full.

   "After eating, go to my uncle's house to get it. There is a lot of candy at my uncle's house."

   "I know uncle."

   This baby is quite good. After buying candy, he sits on the stone behind Chen Ling and Chen Ze and listens to them.

   After chatting for a while, seeing that the men had already started to gather together to play chess and cards, Chen Ling heard what he should have listened to, so he didn't stay any longer, he turned around and took the bowls and chopsticks and went home.

   There was nothing to do in the afternoon, so Chen Ling took his daughter-in-law to take a nap.

When I woke up at three o'clock, I just said that I wanted to pour a glass of water, and I heard chickens jumping around in the yard. I looked outside, and it turned out that it was the three little idiots. The fighting power of the chickens is not weak, and they do not dare to provoke them after suffering losses.

   These are a few turkeys brought by Wang Zhenzhen. They were kept in the chicken coop without killing them. As a result, these three little creatures felt that they were easy to bully, and they came to tease them every three days.

   But these turkeys are still very afraid of yellow-skinned chickens. When they come over, they are frightened like something. They are always kicked all over the yard and jump around.

   "Go, go, Kim, drive them out."

   As soon as Chen Ling woke up, he was a little upset by the commotion, and he didn't leave the house, so Xiao Jin drove the three little fools out.

   These three little things have grown up now, and the gray hair has also changed twice, and now it has turned brown, which is not much different from the adult yellow skin.

  Xiao Huang and Xiao Pang don't care about them anymore. Usually they are bored in the old house during the day and don't come out. They come to the house after dark to help catch the mice and snakes hidden in the house.

  Wang Zhenzhen was surprised for a while when he first arrived.

   But these yellow-skinned people ignored her, and gradually lost interest.

   At this time, Wang Susu also got up from the bed and looked out: "Really ran out again? Didn't this girl let her eat and sleep for a while?"

   There was a commotion in the courtyard just now, and Wang Zhenzhen was not seen coming out. Wang Susu thought that his sister was out to play again.

   "I don't know, I'll take a look."

As a result, when Chen Ling walked to the east room, he saw the little girl squatting quietly beside the bed, cutting the paper to the size of the textbook, and cutting a gap at the spine of the book, leaving a good place, and then following the pages of the book. Folded, pressed, and slowly flattened, the small appearance is very serious.

   This is a book cover.

  The paper used to wrap the book cover is the kraft paper wrapped by Zhao Dahai when he sent the oil painting. It is tough and strong, and it is not easy to wear and tear. It is not as beautiful and delicate as the calendar paper wrapping after wrapping.

   But it doesn't matter, Chen Ling and the others still used cement bags and urea bags when they were young. Didn't they come here?

   Today's dolls don't pay attention to this either.

   "It's really a book cover, your sister thought you ran out to play again."

  Chen Ling walked over and took a look. The newly bought stationery box, workbook, eraser and pen were all displayed. This guy really looks like that.

  Wang Susu also came over and said, "After the textbook is wrapped, put it under the quilt first, and press it overnight. The schoolbag has been sewn for you and hung on the closet. Go and get it."

"understood."

   The little girl nodded, turned around and snorted at Chen Ling, wrinkled her nose, and flung her braids to the main room.

   Confused Chen Ling for a while: "This... what am I doing to her?"

  Wang Susu pursed her lips and smiled when she saw this: "I must have lost my temper after I hadn't slept in the afternoon. I'm going to boil a pot of water, and I'll cut your hair for the two of you later."

   "Okay, you can cut it first, and I'll go and cut some reeds."

   After taking a nap at noon, Chen Ling also wanted to go out for activities.

   Then he drove the ox cart and went to the Laohewan in the south of the village to cut the reeds of the cart. The straw mats must be cut in advance and dried in the sun.

   In previous years, there was no need to do this effort, just pull some wheat straw from the wheat straw piles outside the village and come back, but this year, the wheat straw piles were all washed away by the flood, and they were composted in the farmland of various families and turned into fertilizers long ago.

  I want to use ready-made wheat straw this year, but I have nowhere to find it.

   (end of this chapter)